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| Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:00:00 EST Coffee does not increase risk of high blood pressure |
| Go ahead, ladies, ask for that extra shot of espresso in your morning latte. The caffeine jolt might spike your blood pressure for a short time—until lunch, perhaps—but it won't have a lasting effect, according to a study out this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study followed more than 155,000 women for 12 years, asking them every couple of years about their consumption of caffeinated beverages and whether they had been diagnosed with high blood pressure by a doctor. Researchers found no association between total caffeine intake and high blood pressure. |
| Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:00:00 EST The New Jersey results |
| First, a complaint about the way New Jersey officials post election results on the Web—and a caveat about what follows. New Jersey didn't start posting election results on the Web until after I went to bed last night, and its current postings are more incomplete than the returns reported by the Associated Press. Also, New Jersey, for no good reason, posts the returns for each candidate on separate pages, which makes calculations of percentages tedious (thank goodness there are only 21 counties!), and each candidate in this case includes not only Democrat Jon Corzine and Republican Doug Forrester but all eight nuisance party candidates, who among them received about 3.5 percent of the vote. I say about because these returns are incomplete. I find that turnout in Hudson County was down 38 percent from 2001—highly unlikely—and that turnout in Atlantic and Cape May counties was down 10 percent. That probably means that most of the precincts left to report are in those counties. Since Hudson County is heavily Democratic and Atlantic County leans that way, while Cape May County is usually Republican, that means that Corzine's final percentage will probably be a little higher and Forrester's a little lower than the numbers I've used here. Also, I've calculated these percentages in tenths but report them rounded off as whole percentages. Given the fact that at least some of them will be different when the final results are in, I think that reporting percentages in tenths is an exercise in spurious precision. |
| Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:00:00 EST Critic in Chief: Now that's what I call a presidential press conference! |
| Note: Commander in Chief—fact based or totally fictional? Each Wednesday, our White House correspondent will cast a critical eye at the previous night's episode of the popular new ABC drama starring Geena Davis as that very nice President Mackenzie Allen and Donald Sutherland as that not-so-nice Speaker of the House Nathan Templeton. Walsh has covered the White House for U.S. News since 1986. |
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